What  Your  Money  Is 
Doing  for  Your  Boys 


A  Bird's-eye  View 
of  the  Work  of  the 

Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
Young  Women's  Christian  Association 
National    Catholic    War   Council  — 
K.   of  C.  —  Jewish  Welfare  Board 
War  Camp  Community  Service 
American  Library  Association 
Salvation  Army 


United  War  Work  Campaign 
November,  11-18 
$170,500,000 


HOW  WE  ARE  BAC1 


A  t  t\  C\ance      A  hundred  and  seventy  million  dollars  is  a  lot  of  money; ' 
/\i  a  vjianvc.     ^  jt  means  iess  than  a  dollar  a  week  for  each  of  the 
boys  of  our  Army  and  Navy.  And  certainly  no  man  in  America  will  say  that 
a  dollar  a  week  is  too  much  for  their  cheer  and  entertainment— at  least  not  if 

one  of  the  boys  is  his  boy. 

Wnrkers  The  6eld  army  of  these  seven  great  agencies  comprises  more 
y»  ui  &n  lhan  fiJteen  tbousand  uniformed  workers  on  both  sides  of  the 
water,  and  General  Pershing  is  asking  that  additional  workers  be  sent  at  the 
rate  of  at  least  a  thousand  a  month. 

They  represent  every  type  of  activity— secretaries,  athletic  directors, 
librarians,  preachers,  lecturers,  entertainers,  motion  picture  operators,  truck 
drivers,  hotel  and  restaurant  workers,  etc.  Many  are  bearing  all  their  own 
expenses;  those  who  cannot  are  paid  their  actual  living  expenses,  if  single,  and 
are  given  an  allowance  approximately  equal  to  the  pay  of  a  second  lieutenant 
to  cover  their  own  aud  their  families'  expenses,  if  they  have  families. 
HutS,  Clubs,  Hotels,     More  than  3600  separate  buildings  have 

n,  '  „ir„nt.  _„j        been  either  erected  or  rented  to  make  possible 

Kesrauran  it>  aim      this  huge  work  They  are  of  every  sort>  vary_ 

Hostess  Houses.  mg  from  the  great  resorts  at  Aix  les  Bains, 
where  American  soldiers  may  spend  their  furloughs,  to  the  huts  and  hostess 
nouses  made  familiar  by  the  cantonments  on  this  side. 

In  addition  there  are  scores  of  warehouses  and  garages;  and  hundreds  of 
"huts"  which  consist  of  nothing  but  ruined  cellars  or  dug-outs. 

Nor  do  these  figures  include,  of  course,  the  hundreds  of  buildings  operated 
in  peace  times  by  these  organizations,  all  of  which  have  been  placed  at  the 
disposal  of  the  soldiers  and  sailors,  and  are  doing  a  magnificent  work  sup- 
ported by  their  regular  funds  and  special  contributions  entirely  apart  from 
this  war  work  fund. 

Character  The  spirit  of  each  of  these  seven  organizations  is  uplifting 
Inflnpnre  in  the  biggest  and  broadest  sense  of  the  word.  Theydepend 
inuueute.  upon  people  of  ideals  for  their  support,  and  their  purpose  is 
to  surround  each  boy,  so  far  as  possible,  with  the  influences  that  were  best  in 
his  life  at  home.  The  huts  of  each  organization  are  opened  freely  to  men  of  all 
faiths.  The  Scriptures  and  booklets  sent  abroad  would,  if  piled  one  upon  the 
other,  make  a  pile  more  than  twenty  miles  high.  Differences  of  creed  and 
dogma  do  not  divide  men  who  are  fighting  and  dying  together.  They  stand 
shoulder  to  shoulder  there  in  a  great  common  faith  in  the  Fatherhood  of  God, 
whose  creed  is  Service  in  the  spirit  of  brotherhood  toward  all  men. 
Libraries.  1°  camps  and  cantonments  on  this  side,  and  on  the  other, 
there  are  812  libraries  and  1,547  branches  containing  more 
than  8,600,000  books  and  5,000,000  copies  of  periodicals.  There  are  250 
additional  libraries  on  the  ships  of  our  fighting  fleets  and  merchant  marine; 
and  the  number  should  be  vastly  increased. 

Letter  Paper.  Almost  every  home  in  America  flying  a  service  flag  has 
received  a  letter  on  the  paper  furnished  by  one  of  these 
organizations.  Together  they  supply  more  than  125,000,000  sheets  of  station- 
ery a  month;  and  probably  half  a  million  dollars  is  kept  tied  up  all  the  time 
in  postage  stamps. 


KING  UP  YOUR  BOYS 


Shipments.    More  than  500  tons  of  supplies  for  the  boys  leave  our  porta 

every  week  under  the  direction  of  these  agencies.  Individ- 
ual items  on  the  shipping  lists  run  into  figures  that  are  astonishing;  as  for  ex- 
ample, these  figures  taken  from  the  shipping  lists  of  one  organization,  for 
the  period  between  July,  1917,  and  August,  1018:  Canned  fruit  1,959,156 
cans;  chewing  gum  14,510,000  pkgs;  cigarettes  848,785,80*;  cigars  32,358,- 
700;  tobacco  2,557,431  packages;  cocoa  463,824  pounds;  condensed  milk 
1,665,120  cans;  flour  31,279,020  pounds;  sugar  10,227,735  pounds;  tooth 
paste  551,520  tubes.  In  France  and  Switzerland  two  cracker  factories  and  a 
chocolate  factory  have  been  entirely  taken  over  so  that  the  boys  may  have 
something  good  in  their  pockets  between  meals. 

Theatrical  An  average  of  a  hundred  of  the  best  actors  and 

Entertainments.  actjesse?  m  America  are  touring  the  huts  in  France 
all  the  time.  These  are  sent  under  the  direction  of 
the  "Over  There  Theatre  League"  of  which  George  M.  Cohan  is  president; 
and  they  are  managed  by  such  well-known  leaders  as  Winthrop  Ames 
and  E.  H.  Sothern. 

Among  the  stars  who  have  appeared  on  the  "hut  circuit"  over  there  are 
Elsie  Janus.  Walter  Damrosch  and  Margaret  Mayo. 

Athletics.  Leisure  has  been  the  foe  of  every  army  that  ever  marched  to 
war.  These  seven  great  agencies  are  turning  our  boys'  leisure 
from  a  liability  into  an  asset.  More  than  a  thousand  athletic  directors  in 
France  and  an  equal  number  on  this  side  help  the  soldiers  to  forget  their 
troubles  with  football,  baseball  and  other  wholesome  outdoor  games. 

The  athletic  orders  placed  on  this  side  for  shipment  abroad  are  the  largest 
single  orders  of  their  kind  in  the  history  of  athletics. 

Motion  Pictures.  Literally  thousands  of  feet  of  film  have  been  pur- 
chased by  these  agencies  for  exhibition  here  and 
over  there.  Mary  Pickford  and  Charlie  Chaplin  and  Douglas  Fairbanks  fol- 
low the  boys  clear  to  the  front  line.  The  average  shipment  of  film  per  week  to 
France  is  more  than  fifteen  miles;  and  the  attendance  at  motion  picture 
shows  (all  free)  averages  2,500,000  a  week. 

In  General.  The  long  arm  of  these  great  agencies  extends  all  the  way 
from  the  500  clubs  operated  by  the  War  Camp  Commun- 
ity Service  on  this  side,  to  the  front  line  trenches  where  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and 
Knights  of  Columbus  and  Jewish  Welfare  Board  distribute  chocolate  and  cig- 
arettes to  the  tired  fighters;  the  American  Library  Association  furnishes  books; 
and  the  Salvation  Army  passes  out  pies  and  doughnuts,  sews  and  mends  for 
our  fighters,  and  mans  ambulances.  It  reaches  into  the  factories  through  the 
Y.  W.  C.  A.  to  protect  the  girls  who  are  making  munitions  for  the  fighters, 
and  into  the  shipyards  and  munition  plants. 

In  short,  wherever  you  find  a  soldier  or  sailor,  you  find  also  the  evidence  of 
the  loving  care  of  the  folks  back  home,  expressed  through  the  medium  of  one 
of  these  seven  affiliated  and  co-operating  organizations. 

They  go  with  the  boy  "every  step  of  the  way." 


Helping  the  Home  to  Follow  the  Flag 

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Co-operating  with  the  Y.  W.  women  are  the  Salvation  Army  lassies  who  toil 
among  the  men,  sewing,  mending,  cooking  savory  pies  and  the  doughnuts  that 
have  made  thera  famous,  and  standing  out  in  the  night  to  serve  piping  hot 
coffee  and  home-made  sandwiches  to  the  troops  as  they  shift  locations  and 
bring  up  their  ammunition. 

If  the  hoy  is  allowed  to  visit  the  armies  of  our  Allies  he  will  2nd  that  they  too 
have  asked  for  the  hut,  and  received  it.  More  than  a  thousand  Y  huts  under 
the  name  of  "Foyers  du  Soldat"  are  helping  to  maintain  morale  in  the  French 
army — erected  at  the  special  request  of  the  French  Ministry  of  War.  The  King 
of  I  taly  made  a  personal  request  for  the  extension  of  the  "  Y"  work  to  his  armies. 
The  men  who  are  charged  with  the  task  of  winning  this  war  believe  that  America 
can  do  nothing  better  to  hasten  victory  than  to  extend  the  influence  of  these 
great  creators  and  conservers  of  morale  to  the  brave  soldiers  of  our  Allies 

Every  Dollar  Made  to  Do  Its  Utmost. 

There  is  no  room  for  figures  in  so  brief  a  statement  as  this.  It  should  be  re- 
membered, however,  that  these  organizations  are  not  private  agencies.  Every 
one  of  them  is  operating  under  an  Executive  Order  of  President  Wilson.  The 
budget  of  each  one  is  scrutinized  and  passed  upon  by  the  War  Department.  In 
addition  the  work  of  each  organization  is  governed  by  a  War  Work  Council  of 
nationally  known  men  and  women  of  whom  these  twelve  members  of  the  National 
Campaign  Committee  are  representative: 

Haymond  B.  Fosdick,  Chairman  Commission  on  Training  Camp  Activities. 
John  II.  Mott  George  W.  Perkins 

Mrs.  Henry  P.  Davison  John  G.  Agar 

James  F.  Phelan  Mortimer  L.  Schiff 

Honorable  Myron  T.  Herrick  Frank  A.  Vanderlip 

George  Gordon  Battle  John  D.  Rockefeller,  Jr. 

Cleveland  H.  Dodge 
Every  king,  premier  and  prominent  general  of  the  Allies  has  written  to  urge 
the  necessity  of  the  work  which  is  represented  by  these  united  agencies — not 
merely  as  a  fine  service  to  the  soldiers,  but  as  an  actual  military  necessity,  re- 
sponsible to  large  degree  for  the  maintenance  of  morale. 

The  whole  argument  was  summed  up  in  a  letter  received  in  May  from  Lieut. 
Col.  E.  S.  Wheeler,  who,  in  commenting  on  the  work  of  one  of  these  agencies, 
said  in  a  report  to  General  Pershing:  *'Give  me  nine  men  who  have  a  hut  and  I 
will  have  a  more  effective  fighting  force  than  as  though  I  had  ten  men  without  it." 

Nine  men  who  are  kept  happy  and  contented  can  outfight  ten  men  who  are 
lonesome  and  homesick.  Every  military  man  certifies  to  the  importance  of 
that  truth.  If  it  is  worth  $24,000,000,000  to  America  to  keep  its  men  under 
arms  next  year,  surely  it  is  worth  $170,500,000  to  make  them  fight  10  per  cent, 
more  efficiently — to  contribute  that  factor  which,  as  Napoleon  said,  is  "as  other 
factors  in  war  as  three  to  one" — that  indefinable,  indispensable  factor.  Morale. 


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What  Your  Money  Is 
Doing  for  Your  Boys 


A  Bird's-eye  View 
of  the  Work  of  the 

Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
Young  Women's  Christian  Association 
National   Catholic    War   Council  — 
K.   of  C.  —  Jewish   Welfare  Board 
War  Camp  Community  Service 
American  Library  Association 
Salvation  Army 


United  War  Work  Campaign 
November,  11-18 
$170,500,000 


Helping-  the  Home  to  Follow  the  Flag- 


in  other  wars  the  influence  of  the  American  home  has  had  to  stop  at  the 
soldier's  own  front  gate.  All  that  made  life  comfortable  and  happy  for  him 
deserted  him  there  when  he  kissed  his  family  good-bye. 

In  this  war  the  home  follows  the  flag  clear  up  to  the  front  line  trenches. 
That,  in  one  word,  is  the  story  of  these  seven  great  co-operating  war  work 
agencies. 

Let  us  follow  one  single  soldier  on  the  long  road  that  leads  from  his  front  door 
to  far-away  France,  and  see  how  these  seven  organizations  join  hands  to  form 
a  great  chain  of  helpfulness  all  the  way. 

He  steps  aboard  a  troop  train  that  is  to  carry  him  to  the  cantonment.  A  long, 
lonesome  ride,  full  of  homesick  thoughts,  but,  perhaps,  there  is  a  band  furnished 
by  the  Jewish  Welfare  League  or  the  War  Camp  Community  Service  to  speed 
him  on  his  way,  and  on  the  train  are  friends  whom  he  had  not  expected — a 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  or  a  K.  of  C.  secretary — a  big  friendly  fellow,  who  has  traveled  for 
months  with  other  boys  just  like  him,  and  knows  how  to  help. 

At  the  cantonment  the  evidence  that  the  folks  back  home  are  thinking  of 
him  lies  thick  on  every  side.  Here  are  the  750  great  homey  huts  of  the  K.  of 
C,  the  Jewish  Welfare  Board,  the  Salvation  Army,  and  the  Y — as  the  soldiers 
speak  of  it.  Places  where  he  can  write  letters  home,  play  games  at  night,  wit- 
ness motion  picture  shows,  hear  helpful  lectures,  attend  church  service,  and  keep 
up  with  his  studies  under  the  direction  of  the  best  college  professors  and  teachers 
in  the  country.  Here  also  are  the  85  Hostess  Houses  of  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  where 
mother  and  sister  and  sweetheart  may  make  their  headquarters  when  they 
visit. 

In  all  these  buildings  are  branch  libraries  provided  by  the  American  Library 
Association,  and  filled  with  books  and  magazines.  In  43  of  the  large  camps 
and  several  hundred  smaller  ones  are  library  buildings  besides,  with  trained 
librarians  and  comfortable  reading-rooms. 

No  Duplication  Anywhere. 

In  the  larger  camps  and  cantonments  the  soldier  will  find  houses  of  all  five 
of  the  camp  agencies— the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  K.  of  C,  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  Jewish  Welfare 
Board  and  Salvation  Army — and  all  full  at  every  hour  of  the  day  and  evening. 
In  the  smaller  camps  and  naval  stations,  the  organizations  have  working  agree- 
ments which  prevent  duplication.  In  such  a  camp  there  will  frequently  be 
only  one  hut,  its  doors  open  to  all  the  boys  alike. 

To  it  come  on  Saturdays  and  Sundays  the  prominent  preachers,  priests  and 
rabbis  to  conduct  worship;  for  the  hut  is  the  soldier's  church  and  synagogue. 
There  he  may  have  one  of  the  more  than  three  million  copies  of  the  Scriptures 
that  have  been  supplied  by  these  agencies;  or  a  half  dozen  helpful,  inspiring 
booklets  on  a  variety  of  subjects. 

Basket-ball  and  indoor  baseball  are  played  in  the  hut,  under  the  direction  of 
one  of  the  2,000  trained  physical  directors;  for  the  hut  is  the  soldier's  gymnasium. 

Two  motion  picture  shows  a  week  are  furnished  on  the  average;  and  prom- 


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No  man  who  has  heard  from  his  boy  in  one  of  those  French  villages,  and  who 
knows  what  the  hut  means  to  him,  will  ever  regret  one  penny  of  the  money  given 
to  these  great  organizations.  His  message  will  be:  "Do  more  for  my  boy; 
no  matter  what  it  costs,  whatever  else  you  must  forego,  you  must  not'let  At'i 
village  go  without  its  hut." 

The  boy  is  called  into  the  front  line  trenches.  He  is  there  through  the  long, 
cold  night,  his  feet  wet,  his  whole  body  chilled  to  the  bone.  As  the  first  rays  of 
the  sun  announce  the  new  day,  a  shout  of  welcome  runs  through  the  trench. 
He  looks  to  see  a  secretary—  Y,  or  K.  of  C,  or  Jewish  Welfare  Board  or  Salva- 
tion Army— it  matters  not.  Down  the  trench  he  comes  with  chocolate  and 
cigarettes  and  doughnuts  and  hot  coffee  or  cocoa — the  reminder  that  even 
here,  in  front,  the  love  and  care  of  the  folks  back  home  still  follows  him. 

Is  he  wounded?  Aiding  the  stretcher  bearers,  the  secretaries  work  side  by 
side,  taking  the  wounded  back  to  the  dressing  stations.  Already  fifteen  of 
these  brave  workers  have  given  up  their  lives,  and  scores  have  been  gassed 
and  sent  to  the  hospitals. 

Even  If  He  Is  Taken  Prisoner. 

Is  he  taken  prisoner?  Even  in  the  prison  camp  the  long  arm  of  these  friendly 
organizations  reaches  out  to  aid  him.  In  Switzerland  both  the  Y  and  the  K. 
of  C.  have  established  headquarters  and  through  such  neutral  agencies  as  the 
Danish  Red  Cross  they  carry  on  their  program  of  helpfulness  even  in  the  prison 
camps  of  Germany  and  Austria. 

Does  he  wish  to  send  money  back  to  the  folks  at  home?  The  Y  and  the  K.  of 
C,  the  Jewish  Welfare  Board  and  the  Salvation  Army  transmit  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  dollars  a  month  from  the  front  to  mothers  and  sisters  and  wives 
over  here. 

Is  he  given  a  furlough?  At  Aix  les  Bains,  one  of  the  most  famous  resorts  in 
the  world,  the  Y  has  taken  over  six  great  hotels,  as  well  as  the  great  casino, 
and  here  he  may  swim,  ride  in  the  mountains,  play  golf  and  tennis,  and 
listen  to  the  best  preachers,  lecturers  and  entertainers  America  can  provide. 
The  resort  at  Aix  is  only  one  of  six  which  are  operated,  by  these  agencies  as  a 
haven  for  the  boys  on  furlough. 

Has  he  a  girl  friend  or  relative  over  there  in  the  service  or  with  one  of  the 
war  work  agencies?  He  will  discover  that  she  too  is  cared  for  by  the  Y.  W. 
C.  A.,  just  as  this  great  mothering  organization  cares  for  the  girls  in  war  in- 
dustry on  this  side. 

It  is  the  business  of  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  to  back  up  the  women  who  are  backing 
up  the  men.  In  France  are  sixteen  huts  for  American  nurses  and  fifteen  for 
French  women  workers  in  munition  plants.  Thousands  of  American  girls, 
working  as  telephone  operators  under  the  Signal  Corps,  are  looked  after  in 
Y.  W.  hotels  in  Paris  and  Tours;  and  the  Hotel  Petrograd  has  become  a  center 
for  American  girl  life  in  that  city.  All  this  in  addition  to  the  immense  work  for 
girls  in  war  industry  in  this  country. 

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HOW  WE  ARE  BAC] 


At  a  Glance.     A  hundred  and  seventy  million  dollars  is  a  lot  of  money; 

but  it  means  less  than  a  dollar  a  week  for  each  of  the 
boys  of  our  Army  and  Navy.  And  certainly  no  man  in  America  will  say  that 
a  dollar  a  week  is  too  much  for  their  cheer  and  entertainment — at  least  not  if 
one  of  the  boys  is  his  boy. 

Worker8.      The  6eld  army  of  these  seven  great  agencies  comprises  more 
than  fifteen  thousand  uniformed  workers  on  both  sides  of  the 
water,  and  General  Pershing  is  asking  that  additional  workers  be  sent  at  the 
rate  of  at  least  a  thousand  a  month. 

They  represent  every  type  of  activity — secretaries,  athletic  directors, 
librarians,  preachers,  lecturers,  entertainers,  motion  picture  operators,  truck 
drivers,  hotel  and  restaurant  workers,  etc.  Many  are  bearing  all  their  own 
expenses;  those  who  cannot  are  paid  their  actual  living  expenses,  if  single,  and 
are  given  an  allowance  approximately  equal  to  the  pay  of  a  second  lieutenant 
to  cover  their  own  and  their  families'  expenses,  if  they  have  families. 
HutS,  Clllbs,  Hotels,  More  than  3600  separate  buildings  have 
Restaurants  and  been  either  erected  or  rented  to  make  possible 
Hnstoe«  Hmicoe  this  huge  w  ork.  They  are  of  every  sort,  vary- 

i iusilss  liuusis.         mg  from  tilc  gj^j  rcsort3  at  Aix  les  Bains, 

where  American  soldiers  may  spend  their  furloughs,  to  the  huts  and  hostess 
houses  made  familiar  by  the  cantonments  on  this  side. 

In  addition  there  are  scores  of  warehouses  and  garages;  and  hundreds  of 
"huts"  which  consist  of  nothing  but  ruined  cellars  or  dug-outs. 

Nor  do  these  figures  include,  of  course,  the  hundreds  of  buildings  operated 
in  peace  times  by  these  organizations,  all  of  which  have  been  placed  at  the 
disposal  of  the  soldiers  and  sailors,  and  are  doing  a  magnificent  work  sup- 
ported by  their  regular  funds  and  special  contributions  entirely  apart  from 
this  war  work  fund. 

Character  The  spirit  of  each  of  these  seven  organizations  is  uplifting 
Influence.  in  the  biggest  and  broadest  sense  of  the  word.  They  depend 
upon  people  of  ideals  for  their  support,  and  their  purpose  is 
to  surround  each  boy,  so  far  as  possible,  with  the  influences  that  were  best  in 
his  life  at  home.  The  huts  of  each  organization  are  opened  freely  to  men  of  all 
faiths.  The  Scriptures  and  booklets  sent  abroad  would,  if  piled  one  upon  the 
other,  make  a  pile  more  than  twenty  miles  high.  Differences  of  creed  and 
dogma  do  not  divide  men  who  are  fighting  and  dying  together.  They  stand 
shoulder  to  shoulder  there  in  a  great  common  faith  in  the  Fatherhood  "of  God, 
whose  creed  is  Service  in  the  spirit  of  brotherhood  toward  all  men. 
Libraries.  In  camps  and  cantonments  on  this  side,  and  on  the  other, 
there  are  842  libraries  and  1,547  branches  containing  more 
than  3,000.000  books  and  5,000,000  copies  of  periodicals.  There  are  250  . 
additional  libraries  on  the  ships  of  our  fighting  fleets  and  merchant  marine; 
and  the  number  should  be  vastly  increased. 

Letter  Paper.  Almost  every  home  in  America  flying  a  service  flag  has 
received  a  letter  on  the  paper  furnished  by  one  of  these 
organizations.  Together  they  supply  more  than  125,000,000  sheets  of  station- 
ery a  month;  and  probably  half  a  million  dollars  is  kept  tied  up  all  the  time 
in  postage  stamps. 


ING  UP  YOUR  BOYS 

Shipments.  More  than  500  tons  of  supplies  for  the  boys  leave  our  porta 
every  week  under  the  direction  of  these  agencies.  Individ- 
ual items  on  the  shipping  lists  run  into  figures  that  are  astonishing;  as  for  ex- 
ample, these  figures  taken  from  the  shipping  lists  of  one  organization,  for 
the  period  between  July,  1917,  and  August,  1918:  Canned  fruit  1,959,150 
cans;  chewing  gum  14,510,000  pkgs;  cigarettes  848,785,802;  cigars  82,358,- 
700;  tobacco  2,557,481  packages;  cocoa  463,824  pounds;  condensed  milk 
1,005,120  cans;  flour  31,279,020  pounds;  sugar  10,227,735  pouuds;  tooth 
paste  551,520  tubes.  In  France  and  Switzerland  two  cracker  Factories  and  a 
chocolate  factory  have  been  entirely  taken  over  so  that  the  boys  may  have 
something  good  in  their  pockets  between  meals. 

Theatrical  An  average  of  a  hundred  of  the  best  actors  and 

Entertainments.  actresses  in  America  are  touring  the  huts  in  France 
all  the  time.  These  are  sent  under  the  direction  of 
the  "Over  There  Theatre  League"  of  which  George  M.  Cohan  is  president; 
and  they  are  managed  by  such  well-known  leaders  as  Winthrop  Ames 
and  E.  H.  Sothera. 

Among  the  stars  who  have  appeared  on  the  "hut  circuit"  over  there  are 
Elsie  Janis,  Walter  Damrosch  and  Margaret  Mayo. 

Athletics.  Leisure  has  been  the  foe  of  every  army  that  ever  marched  to 
war.  These  seven  great  agencies  are  turning  our  boys'  leisure 
from  a  liability  into  an  asset.  More  than  a  thousand  athletic  directors  in 
France  and  an  equal  number  on  this  side  help  the  soldiers  to  forget  their 
troubles  with  football,  baseball  and  other  wholesome  outdoor  games. 

The  athletic  orders  placed  on  this  side  for  shipment  abroad  are  the  largest 
single  orders  of  their  kind  in  the  history  of  athletics. 

Motion  Pictures.  Literally  thousands  of  feet  of  film  have  been  pur- 
chased by  these  agencies  for  exhibition  here  ami 
over  there.  Mary  Pickford  and  Charlie  Chaplin  and  Douglas  Fairbanks  fol- 
low the  boys  clear  to  the  front  line.  The  average  shipment  of  film  per  week  to 
France  is  more  than  fifteen  miles;  and  the  attendance  at  motion  picture 
shows  (all  free)  averages  2,500,000  a  week. 

In  General.  The  long  arm  of  these  great  agencies  extends  all  the  way 
from  the  500  clubs  operated  by  the  War  Camp  Commun- 
ity Service  on  this  side,  to  the  front  line  trenches  where  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and 
Knights  of  Columbus  and  Jewish  Welfare  Hoard  distribute  chocolate  and  cig- 
arettes to  the  tired  fighters;  the  American  Library  Association  furnishes  books; 
and  the  Salvation  Army  passes  out  pies  and  doughnuts,  sews  and  mends  for 
our  fighters,  and  mans  ambulances.  It  reaches  into  the  factories  through  the 
Y.  W.  C.  A.  to  protect  the  girls  who  arc  making  munitions  for  the  fighters, 
and  into  the  shipyards  and  munition  plants. 

In  short,  wherever  you  find  a  soldier  or  sailor,  you  find  also  the  evidence  of 
the  loving  care  of  the  folks  back  home,  expressed  through  the  medium  of  one 
of  these  seven  affiliated  and  co-operating  organizations. 

They  go  with  the  boy  "every  step  of  the  way." 


Helping  the  Home  to  Follow  the  Flag 

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Co-operating  with  the  Y.  W.  women  are  the  Salvation  Army  lassies  who  toil 
among  the  men,  sewing,  mending,  cooking  savory  pies  and  the  doughnuts  that 
have  made  them  famous,  and  standing  out  in  the  night  to  serve  piping  hot 
coffee  and  home-made  sandwiches  to  the  troops  as  they  shift  locations  and 
bring  up  their  ammunition. 

If  the  boy  is  allowed  to  visit  the  armies  of  our  Allies  he  will  find  that  they  too 
have  asked  for  the  hut,  and  received  it.  More  than  a  thousand  Y  huts  under 
the  name  of  "Foyers  du  Soldat"  are  helping  to  maintain  morale  in  the  French 
army — erected  at  the  special  request  of  the  French  Ministry  of  War.  The  Xing 
of  Italy  made  a  personal  request  for  the  extension  of  the  "Y"  work  to  his  armies. 
The  men  who  are  charged  with  the  task  of  winning  this  war  believe  that  America 
can  do  nothing  better  to  hasten  victory  than  to  extend  the  influence  of  these 
great  creators  and  conservers  of  morale  to  the  brave  soldiers  of  our  AUies. 

Every  Dollar  Made  to  Do  Its  Utmost. 

There  is  no  room  for  figures  in  so  brief  a  statement  as  this.  It  should  be  re- 
membered, however,  that  these  organizations  are  not  private  agencies.  Every 
one  of  them  is  operating  under  an  Executive  Order  of  President  Wilson.  The 
budget  of  each  one  is  scrutinized  and  passed  upon  by  the  War  Department.  In 
adJition  the  work  of  each  organization  is  governed  by  a  War  Work  Council  of 
nationally  known  men  and  women  of  whom  these  twelve  members  of  the  National 
Campaign  Committee  are  representative: 

Raymond  B.  Fosdick,  Chairman  Commission  on  Training  Camp  Activities. 
John  R.  Mott  George  W.  Perkins 

Mrs.  Henry  P.  Davison  John  G.  Agar 

James  F.  Phelan  Mortimer  L.  Schiff 

Honorable  Myron  T.  Herrick  Frank  A.  Vanderlip 

George  Gordon  Battle  John  D.  Rockefeller,  Jr. 

Cleveland  H.  Dodge 
Every  king,  premier  and  prominent  general  of  the  Allies  has  written  to  urge 
the  necessity  of  the  work  which  is  represented  by  these  united  agencies — not 
merely  as  a  fine  service  to  the  soldiers,  but  as  an  actual  military  necessity,  re- 
sponsible to  large  degree  for  the  maintenance  of  morale. 

The  whole  argument  was  summed  up  in  a  letter  received  in  May  from  Lieut. 
Col.  E.  S.  Wheeler,  who,  in  commenting  on  the  work  of  one  of  these  agencies, 
said  in  a  report  to  General  Pershing:  "Give  me  nine  men  who  have  a  hut  and  I 
will  have  a  moreeffective  fighting  force  than  as  though  I  had  ten  men  without  it." 

Nine  men  who  are  kept  happy  and  contented  can  outfight  ten  men  who  are 
lonesome  and  homesick.  Every  military  man  certifies  to  the  importance  of 
that  truth.  If  it  is  worth  $44,000,000,000  to  America  to  keep  its  men  under 
arms  next  year,  surely  it  is  worth  $170,500,000  to  make  them  fight  10  per  cent, 
more  efficiently — to  contribute  that  factor  which,  as  Napoleon  said,  is  "as  other 
factors  in  war  as  three  to  one" — that  indefinable,  indispensable  factor,  Morale. 


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